cowork-to-code-bridge

cowork-to-code-bridge

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Let Claude run code on your real machine — safely — from any Claude chat. Integrate with Hermes, cron jobs, CI/CD, or any daemon.

🖥️ macOS, Linux, and WSL2. Works on your Mac (launchd), a Linux box/server (systemd, or a manual path for containers/minimal distros), or Windows via WSL2 (systemd in Ubuntu). Native Windows isn't supported yet — see docs/WSL.md.

Claude Cowork (and Claude in your browser) is great at planning and editing, but it runs in a sealed cloud sandbox — it can't reach your actual machine. Claude Code, running on your computer, can: it has your shell, your repos, your tools, and full agent abilities.

This bridge connects the two. Cowork hands a task to Claude Code on your machine, a real local agent does the work, and the result streams back to your chat. So you can say things like:

"build me a web app on my machine, install deps, and run it" "run the test suite and fix what's failing" "review the diff and push if it's clean"

…and a Claude Code agent on your computer actually does it.

Because Claude Code can run things on your Mac, a useful side benefit is that the same bridge lets Cowork run approved shell scripts directly (builds, git, disk checks) without going through the agent — handy for simple, fixed actions.

It's idempotent. Tasks have side effects (edits, commits, pushes), so the bridge caches results by an idempotency key: a retry after a dropped connection returns the cached result instead of running the agent — or the script — twice.

Is it safe to let a cloud chat reach my machine? Short answer: the bridge opens no network ports, never uses sudo, runs only scripts you approve, is gated by a secret token, and uninstalls completely with one command. Full threat model in SECURITY.md.

Install — two pastes total

Step 1 — on your machine (once). Open Terminal (Cmd + Space → Terminal), paste this, press Enter:

# Homebrew (macOS recommended)
brew tap abhinaykrupa/tap
brew install cowork-to-code-bridge
brew services start cowork-to-code-bridge

# or: one-liner (macOS + Linux + WSL2)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/abhinaykrupa/cowork-to-code-bridge/main/install.sh | bash

macOS (Homebrew) — once the maintainer tap is published: brew install abhinaykrupa/tap/cowork-to-code-bridge. See docs/HOMEBREW.md for details and the demo tap.